DATA: Snoeijs et Prentice (1989) DIRECTORY: \CANOCO\SAMPLES\UNIMODAL\EPIALGAE PROBLEM: Effect of cooling-water discharge from a power plant on epilithic algal communities BOOKLET: pp 140-141 and 148-149 ILLUSTRATION OF: + the display of environmental variables by way of their canonical coefficients + the difference between environmental biplot scores (BipE:) and canonical coefficients (Regr:) _______________________________________________________________________________ FILE TYPE | FILE NAME | DESCRIPTION -------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------- SPECIES | epialgae.dta | 88 epilithic algae in 181 samples from 11 sites ENVIRONMENT | sitetime.dta | indicators of site and month of sampling | basinenv.dta | 20 environmental variables at the 181 samples PROJECTS | epi_cca.con | CCA with model "site+month" and the 20 | | environmental variables as Supplementary | | variables | anomaly.con | idem, but with only the mean temperature anomaly | | and flow as Supplementary variables -------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------- The data and analysis are taken from Snoeijs & Prentice (1989). One aspect is shortly discussed in Ter Braak (1994: pp 128-129 and pp 136-137). References: Snoeijs, P.J.M. & Prentice, I.C.(1989): Effects of cooling water discharge on the structure and dynamics of epilithic algal communities in the northern Baltic. Hydrobiologia, 184: 99-123. Ter Braak, C.J.F.(1994): Canonical community ordination. Part I: Basic theory and linear methods Ecoscience, 1: 127-140.